---
title: Telegram
---

**TelegramTools** enable an Agent to send messages to a Telegram chat using the Telegram Bot API.

## Prerequisites



```shell
pip install -U agno httpx
```

```shell
export TELEGRAM_TOKEN=***
```

## Example

The following agent will send a message to a Telegram chat.

```python cookbook/tools/telegram_tools.py
from agno.agent import Agent
from agno.tools.telegram import TelegramTools

# How to get the token and chat_id:
# 1. Create a new bot with BotFather on Telegram. https://core.telegram.org/bots/features#creating-a-new-bot
# 2. Get the token from BotFather.
# 3. Send a message to the bot.
# 4. Get the chat_id by going to the URL:
#    https://api.telegram.org/bot/<your-bot-token>/getUpdates

telegram_token = "<enter-your-bot-token>"
chat_id = "<enter-your-chat-id>"

agent = Agent(
    name="telegram",
    tools=[TelegramTools(token=telegram_token, chat_id=chat_id)],
)

agent.print_response("Send message to telegram chat a paragraph about the moon")
```

## Toolkit Params

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `token` | `Optional[str]` | `None` | Telegram Bot API token. If not provided, will check TELEGRAM_TOKEN environment variable. |
| `chat_id` | `Union[str, int]` | - | The ID of the chat to send messages to. |
| `enable_send_message` | `bool` | `True` | Enable the send_message functionality. |
| `all` | `bool` | `False` | Enable all functionality. |

## Toolkit Functions

| Function | Description |
|----------|-------------|
| `send_message` | Sends a message to the specified Telegram chat. Takes a message string as input and returns the API response as text. If an error occurs, returns an error message. |

## Developer Resources

- View [Tools](https://github.com/agno-agi/agno/blob/main/libs/agno/agno/tools/telegram.py)
- View [Cookbook](https://github.com/agno-agi/agno/tree/main/cookbook/tools/telegram_tools.py)
